Qualcomm CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Replace Traditional Apps

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon Envisions AI Agents Replacing Mobile Apps and Smart Glasses Making Current Smartphones Obsolete Through Persistent Human Machine Interfaces

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has predicted the future of how people interact with digital services, envisioning that artificial intelligence agents will gradually substitute the concept of apps. Speaking on the CNBC Tech Download podcast, he foresaw a time when the digital assistants would perform complex tasks on the user's behalf, eliminating the need to open individual programs. Apps will likely not disappear entirely, but they will evolve and operate behind the scenes , controlled by the agents that form the human machine interface.

The emergence of autonomous agents will fundamentally alter how we view mobile software. Amon used the example of a banking transaction in which the agent would provide specific details from your account with a single voice query, rather than requiring users to navigate menus and pages within an app to find the same information. For Qualcomm, those agents ""are going to be the new app"" in a new era of consumer devices.